2301.141
Documentation of criminal convictions and guilty pleas to be retained in admissible form.

Notwithstanding section
149.38 of the Revised Code, each
clerk of a court of common pleas shall retain documentation regarding each
criminal conviction and plea of guilty involving a case that is or was before
the court. The documentation shall be in a form that is admissible as evidence
in a criminal proceeding as evidence of a prior conviction or that is readily
convertible to or producible in a form that is admissible as evidence in a
criminal proceeding as evidence of a prior conviction and may be retained in
any form authorized by section
9.01 of the
Revised Code. The clerk shall retain this documentation for a period of fifty
years after the entry of judgment in the case, except that documentation
regarding cases solely concerned with minor misdemeanor offenses or minor
misdemeanor traffic offenses shall be retained as provided in divisions (A) and
(B) of section
1901.41 of the Revised Code, and
documentation regarding other misdemeanor traffic offenses shall be retained
for a period of twenty-five years after the entry of judgment in the case. This
section shall apply to records currently retained and to records created on or
after September 23, 2004.